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Gas Holder Site, Emcompassing Frogmore House Lower High Street Watford

20/01032/NONMATNon-material amendment of PPRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 21 December 2020

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Non-material amendment to planning permission 17/00593/FULM for the removal of trees to the River Colne boundary due to re profiled banks to enable river wall strengthening works and creation of an 8 metre access requirement for the Environment Agency.

Received
30 September 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Central
  1. Received30 Sep
  2. Validated30 Sep
  3. Consult.30 Oct
  4. Target28 Oct
  5. Decided21 Dec

Decided in 82 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Gas Holder Site, Emcompassing Frogmore House Lower High Street Watford. Watford has handled 593 applications of this type. This one was decided in 82 days, 5 weeks longer than Watford's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Central.

86% of amendment applications at Watford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Non-material amendment of PP
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 September 2020
Consultation expiry
30 October 2020
Consultation start
9 October 2020
Consultation end
30 October 2020
Last date for comments
30 October 2020
Target decision date
28 October 2020
Permission expires
21 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09115551
Documents
14
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Brownfield land register: Gas Holder Site, Lower High StreetRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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